Law catches up with frauds
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 29 2011:
Imphal East District Police have arrested three chief functionaries of 'Mithuna Traders', who had disappeared after collecting more than Rs 3 crores from many customers in Manipur on false promises of supplying house-hold items at low price, from Guwahati.
Talking to mediapersons in this connection at his office room located at Porompat today, Senior SP of Imphal East police Clay Khongsai informed that a police team led by OC of Porompat Police Station Inspector K Geetchandra was deputed to Guwahati following specific information on the presence of K Muthuraman and his associates, who were involved in the fraud.
K Muthuraman (41) s/o Karuppaiyan of Thiruchi-trambalam Village under Tanjavur district of Tamil Nadu and his two associates identified as K Subramanium (37) s/o late Korbaya, also from the same village and K Thatchina Moorthi (29) s/o late Kumaraval of Mankata Alanguidi, Talak Puddukottai, Tamil Nadu were running a shop known as Sarwana Traders under fictitious identities on the first floor of Bata Building at Malegaon in Guwahati.
All three of them have been arrested and brought to Imphal today, the police officer disclosed.
The police officer further informed that from preliminary interrogation, it has been established that all of them are working under one Sheikh Sahid Mohammad Ali (43) of Hosur, Tamil Nadu.
Accordingly, a raid was also conducted at the rented house of Ali at Guwahati.
The Senior SP has appealed to the duped customers as well as the witnesses to come forward and file their statements with the Porompat Police Station and help in preparing the chargesheet and resolution of the case.
It may be recalled here that K Muthuraman set up Mithuna Traders from a rented building belonging to one Haji Subir at Minuthong-Telipati Road in November last year and went hiding after duping a large number of customers of their hard earned money since January 3 this year.